Prevent Alfred from auto-opening

[verypleasant]

I have disabled Alfred from auto-starting, but even I open from wake, Alfred kicks up. How do I prevent Alfred from opening all the time? 

[Vero]

@verypleasant In Alfred's General preferences, uncheck Launch at Login. The next steps depends on which version of macOS you're on:

• On Ventura, in your System Settings > General > Login Items, remove Alfred
• On Monterey and older, in System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Items, remove Alfred

[verypleasant]

Thank you - I did that prior and it is no listed. But it is still opening upon wake.

[vitor]

This is unlikely to be the cause, but let’s check if you have any old launch daemons which may be causing it. Open a terminal and run:

 

ls ~/Library/LaunchAgents | pbcopy

 

Then paste here.

[vitor]

Open the folder at ~/Library/LaunchAgents (~ represents your home folder) and delete the file com.alfredapp.googledrive.plist. Then reboot and see if the issue remains.

[verypleasant]

Thanks for the help. I did reboot and the issue remains.

[verypleasant]

I don't want to fully uninstall Alfred - though that appears to be the only fix. Does anyone have any other suggestions here?

[Vero]

@verypleasant Could you provide screenshots of your Login Items? I've just re-tested this on two of our Macs and simply unchecking the "Launch Alfred at login" box in Alfred's General preferences is all that was needed to ensure Alfred doesn't launch on restart.

 

Could you also send your Diagnostics file, which you can get by typing "?diagnostics" into Alfred, to our info@ email address so that I can take a look at your Alfred configuration?

 

Cheers,
Vero

[vitor]

Also, could you rerun the command from before? But just run it and then paste here, in the previous run you pasted it to the terminal and then copied that, which may have skewed the results.

[Lowell]

I had the same issue. Alfred is not in my Login Items. It is in my launch agents:

 

✗ ls ~/Library/LaunchAgents|grep lfred
com.alfredapp.1password.plist

 

I've unchecked 'Launch Alfred at login' and then tapped the Quit Alfred button. It will quit but about 10 minutes later (i'm guessing) it restarts. This has happened several times in a row. 

 

 

UPDATE: But then I removed the `com.alfredapp.1password.plist` file and restarted, and Alfred doesn't seem to keep restarting, yay!

Edited July 25, 2023 by Lowell

[Stephen_C]

2 hours ago, Lowell said:

But then I removed the `com.alfredapp.1password.plist` file

That siggests you might be using the Alfred 1Password workflow. As I don't use 1Password I'm not sure if that is related to your problem but, from what you say, it may well be. Are you using 1Password after quitting Alfred (because I'm wondering if that is the time Alfred automatically restarts…because of that workflow)?

 

Stephen

[vitor]

2 hours ago, Stephen_C said:

Are you using 1Password after quitting Alfred

That could be the cause. Deleting that file and restarting does solve it. That was an old file, and in more recent versions of the workflow the restarting issue has already been taken care of.